A Zine of Their Own

Zine
Title:	A Zine of Their Own
Publisher:
Editor(s):	Maria and Christine
Date(s):	2000
Series?:
Medium:	print
Genre:	gen, het
Fandom:	Highlander
Language:	English
External Links:	mentioned here by its publisher
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A Zine of Their Own is a gen and het Highlander fiction anthology. It has the subtitle: "Stories Honoring Immortal Women." It has original artwork by Paige Foster.

Info about the authors and stories is here.

Contents

• Solace in Hell by Jennifer Campbell
• Fledgling by Jen Allen
• They Also Serve Who Only Who Sit by Carol Marden
• This Is Not in My Job Description by the Greenroom. (this is a collaboration of writers. )
• Heart, Faith and Steel by Janeen Kelley Grohsmeyer
• Honor Among Thieves by Deb Distante and CG Liser
• Standing on the Edge by RJ Ferrance
• Elena and Alex by Vi Moreau
• Taking Leave by CL Finn
• For Better or For Worse by MFS/Maria

Flyer Description

Our 'zine focuses exclusively on female Immortals, whether they be characters we've seen on the show, or original female Immortals. We think there is a great unexplored universe of issues and problems specific to female Immortals which haven't been explored on the show, and unfortunately weren't explored on Raven. So stay tuned to this page for the unveiling of A Zine of Their Own: Stories Honoring Immortal Women. In the meantime, however, we thought we'd tease you a bit with what our Zine has to offer the fanfic world.

What we were looking for when we picked our stories -- It's plain and simple. We were looking for stories about female Immortals and we think the stories we picked for the first edition of A Zine of Their Own focus on different experiences of women Immortals, in life as an Immortal, in history, in the Game, etc. We also think we have a good balance between stories including Original Female Characters (OFCs) and stories which focus on characters we've seen on the series.

Length and style -- We selected stories that range from comedy to drama, mixed in some romance, action and angst. We've kept this ‘zine in the range between G and R, so we don't have any Adult stories. (By adult stories, we mean those that have graphic sex, either het or slash. ) Violence is okay... this IS Highlander, right? (However, since our personal tastes shy away from gratuitous violence and hurt/comfort that is over-balanced on the hurt side, we'd really have to like the story a lot otherwise to accept it and we didn't get any entries that had any gratuitous violence.) We had no objection to same sex relationships, but we never did get any stories in that genre, though we have an author in mind whom we'd love to write a story for us someday.

We have accepted stories with characters from pre-existing story arcs, but we feel that those stories stand on their own and give us a good background of the character's history. Since many of the OFCs are part of pre-existing universes already published on the web, we did not discourage them and we accepted a few, but again those stories are self-contained and include characters who are pretty popular in Highlander Fanfic Fandom anyway.